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Increasing Demand Of Cartoon Video Production Companies
Cartoons have been an integral part of entertainment since the early days of cinema, where the weekend matinee shows often played Disney Animation like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and Tom and Jerry by Warner Brothers. Considering that these characters were ‘born’ in the 1930s, it is a feat in itself that they are still just as popular today, since the early
cartoon video production
was not as evolved as it is today. In a lot of ways a
flash animation companies
are turning out to be an effective tool in presenting products and services to the largest possible number of potential and existing customers. It is likewise an efficient means in promoting a company, its mission and visions, its targeted goals as well as its list of achievements to its niche audience. The production of videos presentations involves significant creative processes utilizing the latest in technology. Generally, corporate videos vary according to a company’s particular requirements.
The early cartoon video production involved hand-drawing each of the 24 frames that made up a second’s worth of the film. This tedious job was considerably eased when Earl Hud devised the animation cell, where each individual character was made on a separate cell and all the components of the scene were then merged together. This did away with drawing a static background again and again, since one background cell could be used in all the frames. By the time the 40’s ended, cartoons had become a staple on television. This meant that the cartoon video production had to happen faster to fulfill the weekly demand. This led to the drawings, form, and movement becoming less refined, and voice-overs filling up some of the gaps in the visuals.
Today, Cartoon video production has become faster and more realistic and natural because of computer animation. Using the supply of videos from video production companies has become an effective means of standing out in the areas of marketing and advertising as it’s helpful in promoting not only the products and services but also the company that offers them. It effectively imprints a lasting image or series of images to the target audience with the intention of optimized brand familiarization. Ultimately, gains of whatever company goal are realized, but mostly on maximizing profits.
The tedium associated with mass producing cells has been done away with by making the computers do all the monotonous work. Today
video production companies
require animators that are not just trained in graphics and drawing but also computer software programs. A video, especially one that is professionally done, will work to the advantage of the company as it presents a positive image of the company or group. One only has to ensure the high quality of the video and its contents and such efforts will surely upgrade the image of the company or organization in minds of clients, whether existing or prospective ones
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Wilton Soccer Ball Pan $8.50 The leader in cake decorating tools Wilton doesn’t mess around with anything but the best! Their bake ware is the choice of serious bakers for wedding cakes and other special occasions. Features: thick durable construction, pure aluminum for consistent and professional results. Constructed of Aluminum for rust resistance and easy washing. Pan takes any two-layer cake mix and includes instructions…. |
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Disney Mickey &Gang 5 in 1 Tasty Baker Waffle Maker,Bakes Pancake,Muffins, breads, cakes, and brownies $39.50 The 5-in-1 Tasty Baker is a unique all-in-one table top appliance that will bake muffins, bread, cake, pancakes/waffles and brownies in the one compact unit. It can even cook eggs! Your food will bake in one third the time into 7 kid friendly molds. The adjustable thermostat control, cool touch housing and non-stick baking plate will make this a must have for your families parties, play dates and … |
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Disney Mickey Mouse Tasty Baker $34.99 Cook up some fun with the Mickey Mouse 5-in-1 Tasty Baker. This unique all-in-one appliance bakes pancakes, waffles, muffins, quick-breads and more in the shape of your favorite Disney friends.Works with virtually any batterIt even makes eggsThe bite-sized treats will delight your family at breakfast, snacktime, parties, play dates and every special occasionCharacter molds include Mickey Mouse, Mi… |
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Disney’s Greatest Vol. 2 $7.47 No Description Available.Genre: ChildrensMedia Format: Compact DiskRating: Release Date: 27-FEB-2001… |
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Disney’s Greatest 3 $7.85 No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: DISNEYTitle: VOL. 3-DISNEY’S GREATESTStreet Release Date: 08/20/2002… |
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Classic Disney, Vol. 2: 60 Years of Musical Magic $12.55 Second Volume of Great Disney Songs…. |
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The Fox and the Hound / The Fox and the Hound Two (Three-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray / DVD Combo in DVD Packaging) $19.50 The Fox and the HoundThe Fox and the Hound marked the last collaboration between Disney’s older artists, including three of the “Nine Old Men” (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Woolie Reitherman), and the young animators who would make the record-breaking films of the ’90s. Based on a book by Daniel P. Mannix, the film tells the story of a bloodhound puppy and a fox kit who begin as friends but a… |
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The Fox and the Hound (A Walt Disney Classic) [VHS] $3.97 The Fox and the Hound marked the last collaboration between Disney’s older artists, including three of the “Nine Old Men” (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Woolie Reitherman), and the young animators who would make the record-breaking films of the ’90s. Based on a book by Daniel P. Mannix, the film tells the story of a bloodhound puppy and a fox kit who begin as friends but are forced to becom… |
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The Fox and the Hound (Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection) [VHS] $4.99 The Fox and the Hound marked the last collaboration between Disney’s older artists, including three of the “Nine Old Men” (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Woolie Reitherman), and the young animators who would make the record-breaking films of the ’90s. Based on a book by Daniel P. Mannix, the film tells the story of a bloodhound puppy and a fox kit who begin as friends but are forced to becom… |
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RoomMates RMK1507SCS Mickey and Friends Peel & Stick Wall Decal $9.97 Bring the fun of Mickey and his friends to your child’s room with this charming set of wall decals. Featuring Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Pluto, these stickers are sure to delight children big and small. Coordinate it with any of our giant Mickey & Friends wall decals, or our peel & stick wall border (sold separately) for more fun! Border Specs 4 sheets 10 x 18 Wall Decals and Size 3… |
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Animation the Whole Story $16.26 A valuable and exhaustive guide. — Animation World Professional animator Howard Beckerman has drawn them all: Popeye, Heckle & Jeckle, even Mickey Mouse. In Animation, he offers a road map to the complex art of making an animated feature. Vivid sketches, screen shots, and step-by-step illustrations show how to make a drawing come to life, create storyboards, use form and color, develop a soundtrack, edit, and more. This new edition is also thoroughly updated to reflect the latest trends surrounding digital technology. Animation provides artists and aspiring filmmakers with everything they need to carve their niche in today”s quickly evolving animation industry. – Contains a well-chosen portfolio of 437 visual examples and step-by-step instructions – Copublished with the School of Visual Arts |
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Art Of Epic Mickey $40 The Art of Epic Mickey will be a 160-page hardcover landscape coffee table book. It will be written by Epic Mickey co-writer Austin Grossman and will feature a forward by Game Director and New York Times contributor, Warren Spector. The book will journey through the beautifully dark and twisted world known as Cartoon Wasteland touching on the creative process behind developing this once-in-a-lifetime vision. It will include, sketches, concept art, final frames, and stills from the actual game, plus, never-before-used art with quotes from the team that envisioned this epic tale. The physical world of the game is born directly from Disneyland, and accordingly, the book will spotlight the artistic influence that Disneyland, with its iconic qualities and rides, had on the creators of Epic Mickey. |
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Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism $5.09 Gone with the Wind an inspiration for the American avant-garde? Mickey Mouse a crucial source for the development of cutting-edge intellectual and aesthetic ideas? As Greg Taylor shows in this witty and provocative book, the idea is not so far-fetched. One of the first-ever studies of American film criticism, Artists in the Audience shows that film critics, beginning in the 1940s, turned to the movies as raw material to be molded into a more radical modernism than that offered by any other contemporary artists or thinkers. In doing so, they offered readers a vanguard alternative that reshaped postwar American culture: nonaesthetic mass culture reconceived and refashioned into rich, personally relevant art by the attuned, creative spectator.Artists in the Audience shows how vanguard film criticism was pioneered, in particular, by Manny Farber and Parker Tyler. Farber represents the cultist approach — the discovery of expressive vitality in the work of lesser-known artists — both in New York and in the neglected nooks and crannies of Hollywood. Tyler represents a camp approach — where the critic completes the work creatively, by reworking and augmenting its material into a new aesthetic form. By employing the cult and camp strategies, cultural consumers could become cultural producers in their own right, asserting the aesthetic utility of America’s truly vibrant pop culture. Taylor places this transformation in historical context, bringing out the relationship between Oscar Wilde’s proto-vanguard idea of the Critic as Artist and such modern cultural products as cable television’s Mystery Science Theatre 3000.Taylor traces how Farber and Tyler, in turn, influenced AndrewSarris, Annette Michelson, Jonas Mekas, and Pauline Kael. Artists in the Audience explores the strategies and impact of these critics as a means of understanding and appraising not simply our peculiar conception of film art, but the thoroughly vanguard America that has emerged in their |
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Cleveland Browns History $21.99 There was little fanfare when Art Mickey McBride flew into Chicago in 1945 to purchase a professional football team for Cleveland. But that act set in motion a tradition that has brought the city of Cleveland together on Sunday afternoons for (most of) the sixty years to follow. Cleveland Browns History is the story of championship seasons, legendary coaches, and Hall of Fame players. Coach Paul Brown led his teams to seven league title games in their first 17 seasons. Running backs Marion Motley, Jim Brown, and Leroy Kelley each rushed over opposing defenses and straight into Canton, Ohio, along with fellow Browns like Otto Graham, Ozzie Newsome, and Len Ford. The Kardiac Kids in 1980 had too many nail-biters for some fans, but won the AFC Central in typical fashion — by three points in the final game of the season. All these stories, plus those of the many unsung heroes to don the NFL’s only logo-less helmet, fill the pages of this book, sure to delight any Cleveland Browns fan. |
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Disney – Epic Mickey $14.99 This graphic novel collection brings all of the Disney Epic Mickey comics together for the first time! In the deluxe 160 page volume, readers can see the world of Disney Epic Mickey brought to life by legendary comics writer Peter David, with stunning art by Fabio Celoni and Paolo Mottura. Included in this graphic novel are both the story of the game, with introductions to the magical world of Wasteland and its inhabitants, including Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Gus the Gr |
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Disney Christmas Storybook Collection $15.99 Young readers are invited to join Cinderella, Mickey Mouse, and more than a dozen other Disney characters in festive holiday tales. Each story has been updated and given a fresh look with both spot and full-page art throughout. |
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Disney Cranium Family Edition $46.93 Outrageous fun for the whole family! Join Mickey and friends on a fun journey through the wonderful world of Disney! Celebrate everything Disney with friends and family as you…CREATE works of art like Cinderella’s glass slipper!PERFORM hilarious feats like finding something that Ariel would use to comb her hair!DISCOVER fun facts like What does Hakuna Matata mean?DRAW Pinocchio with your eyes closed!SCULPT Phineas!ACT out Captain Jack Sparrow!Enjoy this playful game that delivers fun and laughter, and stretches the imagination every time!For 2 teams / 4 or more players, ages 8 and up.Contents Include: 16 Fun activities, 400 Disney-themed cards, 2 Mickey Mouse ears movers, game board, 1 tub of Cranium Clay, 6 letter dice, Sand timer, 1 die, pad, pencil and instructions. |
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Disney Fun & Skills 1st – 3rd Grade 2011 – Windows $18.24 With Disney Fun Skills 1st through 3rd Grade your child will enjoy playing multi-level games with Goofy Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse that challenge and help develop problem-solving logic creative and sorting skillsFeatures:. Disney s Extremely Goofy Skateboarding sharpen coordination with Max and Goofy as they teach cool tricks and moves with outrageous audio and visual demonstrations.. Pooh Activity Center – Enjoy 6 fun-filled activities and challenging games with Pooh and friends Build learning skills by reading along with Pooh or listening to a classic story.. Disney Magic Artist Deluxe – Master the tools to bring art to life with this interactive art studio featuring effects and wacky tools that gives kids the power to create their own art.. Disney Phonics Quest – challenges kids to enhance and practice their phonics skills while taking a magical journey with Mickey and his friends.. System Requirements:. Windows XP (Home and Pro) SP2/Vista .. 166 MHz Pentium processor or faster (800 MHz or faster for Vista).. 128 MB RAM (512 MB RAM for Vista).. 100 MB free hard drive space.. 8X CD-ROM (or faster) DVD-Rom drive to view Bonus DVD movie.. QuickTime (included on CD).. DirectX 8.0 (included on CD).. DirectX 8.0 compatible or higher video card (video card with 32 MB of RAM for Vista).. 16-bit thousands of colors.. DirectX compatible sound card speakers.. Keyboard Mouse.. Color printer (required for printing). Note: Some of the programs may require Windows Compatibility mode to run on Windows XP and Windows Vista. Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program on Windows XP and Windows Vista. Format: WIN XP VISTA. Genre: EDUCATION. Age: 705381234500. UPC: 705381234500. Manufacturer No: 23450 |
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Disney’s My First Songbook $12.99 This deluxe songbook features 16 Disney classics: Heigh-Ho * I”m Wishing * Mickey Mouse March * Never Smile at a Crocodile * Some Day My Prince Will Come * A Spoonful of Sugar * When You Wish upon a Star * Who”s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? * and more. Every page is beautifully illustrated with full-color art, making this a remarkable souvenir folio for anyone who loves Disney movies and music! |
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Esopus 13 $14 This issue includes artists” projects by Oliver Herring, Peter Krashes, Jeff Gibson and Mickey Smith, plus a portfolio of previously unseen work by Alex Masket. Other contents include excerpts from a memoir by poet Jennifer Moxley, new fiction from Kelly Sandoval and artifacts from the collection of the late, esteemed rare books librarian Marjorie G. Wynne. Also featured are new installments of two regular Esopus series, Modern Artifacts, which reproduces in facsimile documents related to the museum”s first Matisse exhibition, and Guarded Opinions, featuring museum guards” impressions of the art they oversee. French historian Stephane Gerson closes the issue with a fascinating analysis of visual representations of Nostradamus over the past 500 years. For the issue”s CD, 11 musicians (including Frightened Rabbit, Laura Gibson, Phil Kline and Natureboy) were asked to create a new song inspired by one of Nostradamus” quatrains. |
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Garden Whimsy Applique $14.26 Applique is blooming with a whirlwind of color in these garden-inspired projects! From dapper birds sporting shades to a lazy ant under a cornstalk canopy, the images are meant to spark a smile and pleasant memories. Fanciful pieced backgrounds are enhanced with bold, imaginative applique in quilt patterns for various levels of traditional and art quilters. Through the use of a craft iron-on backing, the author has eliminated traditional steps of turning edges, as well as the need for additional tear-away stabilizers. The images are easy to finish with soft edges and a minimal number of pieces. This same simplicity allows more experienced quilters to further embellish the images. Examples of embellishments with a multitude of techniques are shown throughout the book. Your sense of humor will shine through as this popular pattern designer helps you create a bevy of botanical enchantment. Mickey’s masterful fabric and color combinations will inspire you to cultivate creativity, and her detailed instructions and tips will make your fabric garden grow. |
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Governor Gray Davis Fine Art Vintage Concert Poster Proof From Home of Vicki Mark Hyde, Palo Alto, CA Feb 12, 2000 $83 Fine Art limited edition vintage concert Proof of Governor Gray Davis show at Home of Vicki Mark Hyde, Palo Alto, CA Feb 12, 2000. Also featured: Fred Keely, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir, Sammy Hagar, Victor Johnson, Tom Scott Designed by: Greg King |
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Griffin Kathy-My Life on the D List-3rd Season $24.99 The Lucy Show, starring television?s favorite redhead, Lucille Ball, returns to DVD with in all new laugh-filled adventures. This season, scatterbrained Lucy Carmichael relocates to Southern California, only to discover that her banker-nemesis, Mr. Mooney (GALE GORDON) has done the same. With her children off at school, Lucy discovers the life of a ?single girl,? meeting new friends, going on dates, and trying to make ends meet with part-time jobs. Lucy?s zany antics bring her into contact with some of Hollywood?s biggest stars ? including DANNY THOMAS, MILTON BERLE, ART LINKLETTER, MICKEY ROONEY, DEAN MARTIN, BOB CRANE and many others. Containing all 26 color episodes from the official Fourth Season, digitally remastered on 4 discs, The Lucy Show will delight longtime fans and newcomers alike |
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How to Write a Mystery $15 WHODUNIT? YOUDUNIT!So you want to write a mystery. There’s more to it than just a detective, a dead body, and Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick. Fortunately, Larry Beinhart–Edgar Award-winning author of You Get What You Pay For, Foreign Exchange, and American Hero–has taken a break from writing smart, suspenseful thrillers to act as your guide through all the twists and turns of creating the twists and turns of a good mystery. Drawing on advice and examples from a host of the best names in mystery writing–from Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane to Scott Turow and Thomas Harris–plus some of his own prime plots, Larry Beinhart introduces you to your most indispensable partners in crime: *Character, plot, and procedure * The secrets to creating heroes, heroines, and villains ( All writers draw upon themselves and their experience. While the whole of yourself might not be capable of being either a serial killer or an FBI agent, there are parts in each of us that are capable of almost anything. ) * The fine art of scripting the sex scene *The low-down on violence ( A crime novel without violence is like smoking pot without inhaling, sex without orgasm, or a hug without a squeeze. ) *And much more!From the opening hook to the final denouement, Larry Beinhart takes the mystery out of being a mystery writer. |
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John Cipollina Fine Art Vintage Concert Poster From Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA Jun 26, 1989 $83 Fine Art limited edition vintage concert Poster of John Cipollina show at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA Jun 26, 1989. Also featured: Peter Albin, Antonia Cipollina, Terry Dolan, Greg Elmore, David Freiberg, Mickey Hart, Marguerita, James Cacciatore, Jocelyn Cacciatore Designed by: Alton Kelley |
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John Cipollina Fine Art Vintage Concert Poster From Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA Jun 26, 1989 $19 Fine Art limited edition vintage concert Poster of John Cipollina show at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA Jun 26, 1989. Also featured: Peter Albin, Antonia Cipollina, Terry Dolan, Greg Elmore, David Freiberg, Mickey Hart, Rob Cohn Designed by: Hot Tomato Studios |
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Kids Pink Clubhouse Minnie Mouse Costume – Disney Mickey Mouse Costumes $24.2 Kids Pink Clubhouse Minnie Mouse Costume Kids Pink Clubhouse Minnie Mouse Costume includes the dress with glittered character art and the matching headpiece with ears and bow. DISM269-CL16 |
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Kids Pink Clubhouse Minnie Mouse Costume – Disney Mickey Mouse Costumes $24.2 Kids Pink Clubhouse Minnie Mouse Costume Kids Pink Clubhouse Minnie Mouse Costume includes the dress with glittered character art and the matching headpiece with ears and bow. DISM269-G10 |
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Lucille Ball Film Collection (Dance Girl Dance, The Big Street, Du Barry Was a Lady, Critic’s Choice, Mame) $49.92 Synopsis: Big Street: Haughty nightclub singer Gloria Lyons (Lucille Ball) doesn’t have time for the little people, including Little Pinks (Henry Fonda), the busboy who adores her. Then Gloria is paralyzed when a mobster knocks her down the stairs, and those little people are the only ones who help her. Critic’s Choice: Tossing inspired throwaway lines right and left, Hope is a New York critic who loves writing pointed reviews that close insufferably lousy plays. But there’s a new play in town by his redheaded wife (Ball). Dance Girl Dance: Bubbles (Lucille Ball) loves to dance. But she also likes to eat. Her friend Judy (Maureen O’Hara) may choose to suffer for her art, but not Bubbles. She swap hers balletshoes for a G-string…and turns patrons’ fantasies into dollars as burlesque sensation Tiger Lily White. Dubarry Was a Lady: Hapless nightclub hat check boy Red Skelton loves glamorous chanteuse Lucille Ball. Handsome hoofer Gene Kelly loves her too. But Lucy only loves money. Then Red mistakenly gulps down a Mickey Finn, dreams he’s in 18th-century France and before you can powder your wig, a throng of suitors fall in love with Lucy! Mame: Lucille Ball brings star sparkle to the title role, a high-living grande dame who’s outlandishly eccentric and, when suddenly faced with raising an orphaned nephew, fiercely loving. Veterans of the New York stage original join her: Beatrice Arthur as best friend Vera, Jane Connell as prim governess Agnes, choreographer Onna White and director Gene Saks. |
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Mickey Blue Eyes $3.99 In a role to match his star-making turn in Four Weddings And A Funeral (Mike Clark, USA Today), Hugh Grant plays dapper Manhattan art auctioneer Michael Felgate, the centerpiece of this lively fish-out-of-water comedy romp. Eager to marry Gina (Jeanne Tripplehorn), the lovely schoolteacher he’s been dating for three months, Michael feels it’s time he meet her family. What he meets is the family. Gina’s father Frank (James Caan) is a gangster, a juicer who extracts money for the mob. Now he starts to put the squeeze on Michael, using the auction house as a money laundering scam for dubious artwork…and plunging, fumbling and bumbling Michael into a world where he must pose as a notorious wise guy. They call him Mickey Blue Eyes. You’ll call him hilarious. |
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Mickey Blue Eyes $9.97 About a dapper art auctioneer whose romance with a schoolteacher entangles him in the workings of her mob family. Special features: filmographies and theatrical trailer. Subitles in english. |
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Mickey Mouse 2012 Calendar (Engagement) $13.99 Featuring lush art inspired by The Sorcerer”s Apprentice from Fantasia, Disney”s masterpiece from 1940, this calendar treats fans to a retelling of the story. Fine-art renderings depict Mickey”s trials and tribulations as he uses a bit of magic to make cleanup easier. |
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Real Things $59.57 What a great premise for an anthology! And it succeeds, both in itscelebration of our crazy culture and its fascinating analysis, through the poems, ofpopular myths that have stood the test of time. — KliattIn thepast few decades, poetry about and around popular culture has become a very hipcontemporary art form. Real Things is a collection of over 150 poems by more than130 poets who themselves represent the cultural diversity of the United States. Withsubjects ranging from the influence of Mickey Mouse on child-raising to therelationship of Barbie to sex in America, from the societal effects of the moviePsycho to our fascination with dirty politics and Ralph Kramden, the poems in thisanthology question and celebrate the attitudes that our society shares. |
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Rocky 1 $19.98 Director John G. Avildsen’s ROCKY is the stand-up-and-cheer saga of Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), an underdog boxer who gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect, and the world heavyweight title. Rocky is a down-on-his-luck Philadelphia southpaw who works at a meat-packing factory while fighting at a local club. He’s given the chance of a lifetime when the world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), chooses him as an unlikely opponent in his championship bicentennial fight. What was originally planned as a publicity stunt becomes a chance for Rocky to prove himself as a prizefighter while training with his cantankerous manager, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), to rise to the challenge. Thrilling scenes of Rocky’s arduous training, including his unforgettable run up the Philadelphia Art Museum steps, are interspersed with a sweet and touching love story between the fighter and his best friend’s shy sister, Adrian (Talia Shire). With the love of Adrian on his side, Rocky struggles to overcome the odds, fighting with all his heart in the glorious and brutal finale. Shot with gritty realism on the mean streets of Philadelphia, ROCKY introduced a new American cinematic hero, spurred on by rollicking action sequences and a rousing soundtrack. A triumph for star and screenwriter Stallone, who himself came from nowhere to reach the top, ROCKY is crowd-pleasing entertainment at its finest.System Requirements:Running Time 120 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE |
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Scary Sudoku $104.26 Boo! A Celebrate the spookiest day of the year with the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse x201C;sensational six x201D;, in this new book of sticker puzzles. Children can treat themselves and Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto to a bagful of Halloween-themed puzzles.A Scary Sudoku and Spooky Puzzles offers perfect family fun with everything from not-too-tricky counting and matching activities to simple Sudoku.A With original Mickey Mouse Clubhouse art, and dozens of brightly-colored stickers, Scary Sudoku and Spooky Puzzles will provide hours of eerie entertainment |
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Summer in the City $15.77 Between 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, and 1957, when the Dodgers and the New York Giants played their last season in the East, New York baseball teams appeared in ten World Series. In seven of those years, either the Giants or the Dodgers vied for the championship with the lordly Yankees. These were truly the glory years of New York baseball, when the city breathlessly followed the game in the tabloids rather than on the tube. And the New York Daily News, the nation’s largest newspaper, had the best photographers, the best equipment, and the best field position to record the action, bringing the art of baseball photography to its highest pitch. Accompanied by an evocative text by veteran sportswriter Vic Ziegel, the dramatic photographs (complete with their colorful original captions)-featuring such superstars as Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays-allow the reader to follow year by year the course of baseball’s most exciting decade in the world’s greatest city. |
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Summer in the City: New York Baseball, 1947-1957 $6.78 Between 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, and 1957, when the Dodgers and the New York Giants played their last season in the East, New York baseball teams appeared in ten World Series. In seven of those years, either the Giants or the Dodgers vied for the championship with the lordly Yankees. These were truly the glory years of New York baseball, when the city breathlessly followed the game in the tabloids rather than on the tube. And the New York Daily News, the nation’s largest newspaper, had the best photographers, the best equipment, and the best field position to record the action, bringing the art of baseball photography to its highest pitch.Accompanied by an evocative text by veteran sportswriter Vic Ziegel, the dramatic photographs (complete with their colorful original captions), featuring such superstars as Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays, allow the reader to follow year by year the course of baseball’s most exciting decade in the world’s greatest city. |
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Surfin Shorts $57 During the years I was making my regular surf film, I also did a number of short films, TV programs and commercials. The Wet Set is a film I made for Hobie-Mac Gregor Sportswear. I think it was the first film done on surf-style fashion. After all these years, the style which endures is the surfing of Billy Hamilton, Herbie Fletcher, Mickey Munoz and . Those guys could surf in raccoon coats and make it look stylish. America’s Newest Sport is a short film I made for Hobie. It was about his new skateboard and skateboard team. Hobie, as he always did, figured he could design something better. He came up with flexible trucks and clay wheels which sure beat the old steel ones. His skateboard team was a classic bunch of kids who performed state of the art maneuvers like riding a skateboard while covered by a trash can. would have been a good title for this program I did with Bud Palmer. It includes the first-ever surf trip to Japan, which I made in the summer of 1963, with Del Cannon and little Peter Johnson. The trip to Japan was made before Mike Hynson, Robert August and I made our world trip to make . When was finished, the Japan segment didn’t seem to fit and was left out. This film includes interviews and surfing with the young hot-dogger and the best surfer in the world Phil Edwards. |
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TRON Legacy Mickey Flynn Paper Giclee Print $164.99 Mickey enters the game grid! Tron -inspired artwork from Greg McCullough! Limited to just 195 pieces worldwide! Mickey Mouse enters the game grid in this extraordinary Disney Underground TRON Legacy Mickey Flynn Paper Giclee Print! Featuring the one and only Mickey Mouse hurling an identity disc, this stunning work of art is inspired by Disney’s TRON: Legacy film. Printed on acid-free archival paper, this print measures 17-inches tall x 22-inches wide and is limited to just 195 hand-numbered pieces worldwide! Includes certificate of authenticity. Order yours today! In TRON: Legacy , Sam Flynn, a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin Flynn, a man once known as the world’s leading video game developer. When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the abandoned Flynn’s Arcade that could have only come from his father, he finds himself pulled into a world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years. With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra, father and son embark on a life-or-death journey across a visually-stunning digital universe – created by Kevin himself – which has become far more advanced with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons and landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape. Gicle (pronounced zhee-clay ) is an invented name for the process of making fine-art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word was coined to distinguish commonly known industrial Iris proofs from the fine-art prints artists were producing on the same printers. The name has since come to mean any high-quality, ink-jet print, and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such. In the past few years, the word (as a fine-art term) has come to be associated with prints using fade-resistant archival inks and the inkjet printers that use them. A wide variety of substrates are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, waterc |
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The Art Of Game Characters $29.95 Computer and video games are the entertainment media of the 21st century, and game characters like Lara Croft and Mario are now as famous as Mickey Mouse and Homer Simpson. This definitive guide examines the appeal of these iconic characters from the early days of gaming to the present. A follow-up to the successful Art of Game Worlds, this book examines the remarkable work that goes into the creation of captivating, realistic game characters. Each subsection takes an in-depth look at a specific type of character and uses examples to discuss how that type is used effectively in games. All games enthusiasts, from amateur to expert, will benefit from this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated volume. |
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The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms $161.82 Drawing on unfettered access to Disney artists and archives, Finch chronicles every facet of Disney art, including animation, live-action, and theme parks–from Mickey’s 1928 debut to the forthcoming Fantasia 2000. 250 illustrations, 150 in color. |
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The Black Crowes Fine Art Vintage Concert Poster From Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA Aug 02, 1997 $37 Fine Art limited edition vintage concert Poster of The Black Crowes show at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA Aug 02, 1997. Also featured: RatDog, Mickey Hart Planet Drum, Bruce Hornsby, moe., Jorma Kaukonen, Michael Falzarano |
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Etiquette $15.3 CIG to Etiquette has been a great success since its publication in 1996. Now Mary Mitchell, Ms. Demeanor herself, offers a revision that takes readers through Y2K and beyond.– Gifts and e-commerce — can you wrap an electronic gift?– Telecommuting and the home office — their impact on family and friends– Volunteering — the fine line between being Mother Theresa and Lady Bountiful– An updated section on weddings– Dining — on the run and takeout; new tipping systems; manners at Mickey D’s– Privacy, diversity, and harassment issues on the job– E-mail etiquette and computer manners — and does — handwriting still matter?– Saying the right thing — is small talk dead? The art of the apology. A compliment is not necessarily sexual harassment |
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The New Riders of the Purple Sage Fine Art Vintage Concert Handbill From Great Highway, San Francisco, CA Apr 17, 1970 $289 Fine Art limited edition vintage concert Handbill of The New Riders of the Purple Sage show at Great Highway, San Francisco, CA Apr 17, 1970. Also featured: Charlie Musselwhite, Mickey Hart, Bobby Ace his Cards From the Bottom of the Deck, Temporary Optics Designed by: Randy Tuten |
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The Story of Rose O’Neill $28.46 To most of us, Rose O’Neill is best known as the creator of the Kewpie doll, perhaps the most widely known character in American culture until Mickey Mouse. Prior to O’Neill’s success as a doll designer, however, she already had earned a reputation as one of the best-known female commercial illustrators. Her numerous illustrations appeared in America’s leading periodicals, including Life, Harper’s Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan. While highly successful in the commercial world, Rose O’Neill was also known among intellectuals and artists for her contributions to the fine arts and humanities. In the early 1920s, her more serious works of art were exhibited in galleries in Paris and New York City. In addition, she published a book of poetry and four novels. Yet who was Rose Cecil O’Neill? Over the course of the twentieth century, Rose O’Neill has captured the attention of journalists, collectors, fans, and scholars who have disagreed over whether she was a sentimentalist or a cultural critic. In these memoirs, O’Neill reveals herself as a woman who preferred art, activism, and adventure to motherhood and marriage. Featuring photographs from the O’Neill family collection, The Story of Rose O’Neill fully reveals the ways in which she pushed at the boundaries of her generation’s definitions of gender in an effort to create new liberating forms. |
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The Wrestler $35 Darren Aronofsky”s The Wrestler is an insightful behind-the-scenes meditation on the film”s provocative characters and the choices they make. Once a hugely successful WWF wrestler, Randy the Ram now ekes out a living performing for diehard wrestling fans from the 1980s in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. But when he suffers a heart attack, Randy”s doctor tells him he needs to lay off the steroids and stop wrestling altogether. Forced out of show business, Randy begins to evaluate the state of his life. But the pull of the spotlight is too strong and he attempts once again to find his way back into the ring. Featuring actors Mickey Rourke, Academy award-winning Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood, this book is an extension of Aronofsky”s filmic vision, and will contain film stills, the original shooting script, still photos, original art, and observations by its creators, cast, and crew. |
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To Honolulu in Five Days $8.06 It was the golden age of Hawaiian tourism, when cruise lines ruled the South Seas. The crown jewel of Matson Navigation Company”?”s white ship fleet, the S.S. Lurline, exemplified the best of luxury-liner travel to Hawaii. For four decades, this great lady of the seas embodied the spirit of aloha, carrying thousands of travelers to and from the islands in high style. Full of memorabilia, advertisements, souvenirs, photographs, and art, TO HONOLULU IN FIVE DAYS transports readers to this bygone era, granting a nostalgic glimpse of the luscious artwork, lavish cuisine, and glamorous pleasures of a truly memorable voyage. Includes dozens of vintage photographs depicting life and celebrities-such as Mickey Rooney, Clark Gable, George Burns, and Shirley Temple-aboard the Lurline. |
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Treasures-Complete Pluto-V02 $73.58 Mickey’s best pal Pluto continues to light up the screen as leading dog in more of his adventure-filled cartoons. Putting the spotlight on his comical antics from 1947 through 1951, this volume includes the inspired Bone Bandit of 1948 and the 1951 classic Plutopia. The treats continue with three rarely seen shorts featuring Pluto’s feline nemesis Figaro, and a revealing exploration of a classic Pluto short. Plus, contemporary Disney master animators discuss their favorite Pluto moments and the art and craft behind them. It’s no wonder Mickey’s faithful pup became top dog around the world. Featuring exclusive introductions by film historian Leonard Maltin, this is a timeless collection from generations past for generations to come.System Requirements:Running Time: 287 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE |
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Unknown Joe DiMaggio Mickey Mantle & Ted Williams 1951 – 30 x 25 – Fine Art Poster Print $28.8 This fine art print was reproduced on the highest quality paper to capture the vivid color and detail of the original artwork. Size: 25 inches x 30 inches |
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Walt Disney Treasures-Complete Pluto (Vol 1) $32.99 Mickey s best friend starred in his own very popular cartoon short subjects, made during the height of the Disney Studio s first golden age of animation. Featuring fast-paced comedy and lush animation, Pluto s shorts easily stand on par with those of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. Here are many of Pluto s most entertaining animated shorts from the 1930 s through the 1940 s. Bonus materials include The Story of Dogs featurette; Pluto character designs and production art, and much more. |
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Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories 667 $6.95 Short stories featuring Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Big Bad Wolf, Scamp and other Disney characters. It’s Earth Day in Duckburg, and Donald’s cleaning up the city in Taking Things Litterly. Pflip’s Strange Power is a 1948 classic by Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson. Big Bad Wolf plays Musical Eggs in an Easter-themed story by the famous Dutch team of Wilbert Plijnaar and Dick Matena. Donald’s nephews are Straight Shooters in a short gag story by Duck master Al Taliaferro. Goofy gets Esteem For a Day when a world of Goofylike alien beings asks him to be their Great Reasoner… an exalted judge who must solve the entire planet’s problems! Scamp tries Making Like a Mole by moving bones through underground tunnels. This classic Lady and the Tramp-world adventure features the art of Al Hubbard. Finally, in Gadabout Gadget, Donald’s and Scrooge’s Formula One racing adventures continue. Donald loses a super racecar part in the jungles of Brazil, and must trek into danger to recover it! |
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Walt Disney’s Mickey and the Gang: Classic Stories in Verse, Vintage Magazine Art 1934-1944 $29.99 This complete collection of beautifully rendered art graphically depicts Disney cartoon shorts from the 1930s and 1940s. This handsome coffee-table book collects ad pages featured in Good Housekeeping magazine that were originally designed to both promote Disney’s cartoons and to act as springboards for other merchandising.Gemstone Publishing |
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Watch Me Move $39.95 Today”s breathtaking digital animation by the likes of Pixar may have been unimaginable to such moving-image pioneers as Eadweard Muybridge and Winsor McCay, but over the course of the last century animation has become one of the most popular and prevalent visual art forms. Watch Me Move presents an extensive selection of animated imagery created over the past 100 years, from Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop to Astro Boy, South Park and Avatar, and covers a wide range of techniques, including hand-drawn, stop-motion, computer animation and more experimental forms. Organized thematically, the book explores the emergence of animation, its well-loved characters, heroes and villains, its myths and fables, dramatic narratives and alternative realities. With essays by animation experts and biographies of the leading studios and animators, Watch Me Move is the definitive guide to the dynamic world of the animated image. |
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Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield/Labyrinth of Sex $9.98 It’s a mondo-style celebration of all things Jayne Mansfield in which the starlet turns a European vacation into a Skin-Goddess Spectacle! See Jayne visit a nudist colony on the Isle of Levant! Go with Jayne to a gay bar where she quickly gets confused! Join Jayne at various Parisian strip clubs and watch as she takes a private lesson at Pierre’s striptease school! Marvel with Jayne at the wonders of an All-Girl Topless Band, an underground Transvestite Beauty Contest, and Jayne’s own unabashed nude scenes from the rarely seen skinflick Promises! Promises! All of which is capped off with shocking photos of Jayne’s fatal car crash before hubby Mickey Hargitay (Bloody Pit of Horror) takes us on a final tour of Jayne’s Pink Palace! Plus, plunge into The Labyrinth of Sex, a semi-psychedelic stew of sexual excess, as Professor Emilio Servadio introduces us to such victims of Kink-Gone-Extreme as a non-stop nympho, a sexpot sex killer, a well-adjusted masochist, a fetishist who assembles his own women, a lovely lesbian with a special mommy, and even a couple who copulate for science! With its haunting score and groovy 60′s look, this crackpot mutant mondo is also The Greatest Art Film Ever Made! |
January 20, 2012 7:20 am 
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